Word: fakes
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...report made public last week did not go so far as to call the picture a fake, but the jurors had refused to authenticate it, and they took seven pages to give their reasons. The jury complained that "within the time available for the study, exhaustive analytical work was not feasible," and presented its final opinion "with full recognition of its own fallibility." The portrait looked suspiciously inferior to the Van Goghs on exhibition at the Met, the jury agreed. It was "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head...
According to the original YPH statement, the National Scholarship Service was a fake name invented by the Student Council and the money donated to it actually went to the United Negro College Fund, which helps private, segregated Negro colleges...
Hearst's Heald-American had been on the street only a few minutes before Cook County Jail Superintendent Chester L. Fordney cried: "The picture is a fake...
...speakeasies running in a thousand Manhattan basements, Frank Costello threw his bankroll into the rum trade. It was an enormous and complex business which involved the systematic bribery of thousands of policemen, the timed dispatching of speedboats and trucks, the direction of sales and bookkeeping staffs, the printing of fake labels, the operation of cutting plants and the purchase of fortunes in whisky. To the tough hoodlums who were its soldiers, it was also extremely hazardous...
Next day the States ran an exclusive story of its own under a Page One banner: "PRINCE" MATE OF N.O. GIRL CALLED FAKE. A long-distance call to a bona fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...